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What happens when empathy becomes another workplace skill some people are allowed to fail?
Sofia has been hired as an empathy coach at a debt-collection agency, and the job is going about as well as you might expect. Her new clients can barely identify an emotion, much less practice compassion (and let’s just disregard the fact that someone keeps mugging Eva in the kitchen), and the office culture is a nightmare wrapped in corporate language and dead-eyed professionalism. While the employees stumble through lessons in feeling, listening, and basic human decency, something more sinister keeps breaking through the absurdity.
Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s outrageous dark comedy is sharp, bizarre, and deeply unsettling - exposing the danger of a world where harm is normalized, accountability is optional, and some people’s feelings matter far more than others. *Michigan Premiere*
What happens when machines and corporations take control of our stories before we have a chance to tell them ourselves?
In an unused room inside the Google offices in Manhattan, a theatre troupe gathers to rehearse a new play written by an advanced artificial intelligence named Denise. What begins as an experiment in performance quickly slips into something stranger, darker, and far less controllable. The actors try to make sense of a script written by a machine, but the deeper they go, the more the lines blur between rehearsal and simulation, creator and creation, art and algorithm.
Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play is an existential comedy, a sci-fi horror story, and a slippery theatrical puzzle about creativity, control, desire, and the unsettling future we may already be living inside.
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Creating conversations around social issues to expand audience thinking.
Challenging and supporting artists in growing their craft.
Supporting artists financially.
Building an artistic community that is inclusive and diverse.
Shaping West Michigan’s cultural identity.
Giving voice and space to the marginalized and othered
From its inception, Actors' Theatre has been committed to productions which address issues that reflect the dilemmas, conflicts, and joys of human existence.